UX Architect & Designer
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Engineering
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Required education: Professional
Industry: Internet
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Founded in 2010 by a team from Google’s London and New York offices, Qubit work with some of the biggest names in Online. Our engineers have built a brand new platform that combines a number of technologies – analytics, automation, personalisation and more – into a simple, easy-to-use product.We’re not the only ones excited about our brand new approach to solving the problems of modern e-Commerce. Wired magazine named Qubit as one of the top 5 hottest startups in London. We’ve raised $7.5 million in Series A funding from one of the UK’s biggest venture capitalists! Come and join the growing team as we embark on the most exciting chapter in Qubit’s history.Although we’ve now grown to more than 90 people, we’re keen on keeping our culture as relaxed and open as when there were only 5 of us. Our offices have table football, kitchen full of fruit and other snacks, never ending coffee supply, dinner service and lots of other startup perks. More importantly we’re a focused and determined team preparing to double in size during 2014!

Job description:
Qubit: Cutting Edge Big Data EngineeringAt Qubit we take User Experience seriously. Our brand new platform was extensively user tested before we took it to market, and we have a talented in-house team doing forward thinking design. Now we’re looking for an experienced UX Architect to work closely with our product and design teams to ensure the Qubit platform works as well as it can.We’re not looking for people who think Photoshop and Dreamweaver are where design begins and ends. If you can apply cognitive design principles to practical solutions, we want to hear from you.What you will be doingUnderstanding user requirements and planning how to satisfy them. You’ll work closely with our Developers, Analysts and Product Management team to optimize our solution.Maintaining design consistency across all of our many digital properties.Helping to analyse the results of User Research and developing plans of action as a result of what we’ve learned.Creating and delivering the entire end-to-end UX / UI solution from planning to the final stages.

Requirements:
What You’ll NeedAt least 3 to 4 years experience designing for complex web applications.The specific design packages you use are not important, although we expect you to be experienced with Omnigraffle, Axure or similar tools.Experience and knowledge of User testing and User research.Experience with products that incorporate data visualizations would be very useful.The ability to quickly present sketches, wireframes, experience maps, and conduct user journey analysis.Natural communication skills, you will have to communicate your vision and ideas to a wide range of people.Some JavaScript skills will come in useful, as we need people who can create interactive prototypes.Involvement with the design community and mobile or tablet experience would definitely be nice to have.

Benefits:
Plenty of perksAs well as the opportunity to solve complex problems in this exciting new era of big data, here’s what we offer:Realistic performance related bonusesGenerous equity options mean you’ll own a piece of the pieExcellent health and dental insurance packagesA relaxed approach to time off and enough holidays to see several corners of the worldFridge fully stocked with healthy snacks and the ultimate espresso machine for your java fixA competitive office where we play foosball, football, scrabble, go-karting… you name it, we’ll play itThank Qubit it’s Friday – we have lots of creative ways to let off steam at the end of the weekPlenty of opportunities for training and development